Defense Spending

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Bush to Hamas: Stop Wasting Money on War in Middle East

Chris Kelly | Posted 01.03.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Military Industrial Complex, Gaza, Budget, Hamas, Defense Spending, Iraq, Israel, World News

In his latest radio address, President Bush lambasted Hamas for "spending its resources on rocket launchers instead of roads and schools." Is he really that unconscious or does he say these things just to make people crazy?

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Navy Sinks Billions into Spare Parts

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Senate, Government Waste, Navy, Gao, Military Spending, Video, Department of Defense, Defense Spending, Politics News

For too long, the Pentagon has been exempt from economic scrutiny. We must make it illegal for the military to spend appropriations on spare parts that it cannot justify.

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Defense Budget '09: Still Fighting the Soviets, or Preventing Genocide?

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Left, US Military, Department of Defense, National Security, Somali Pirates, Genocide, Progressives, Mumbai, Obama National Security, Defense Spending, Peacekeeping, Cold War, Pentagon, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Obama Defense Spending, Politics News

We have to do something about our current situation. We're spending more and more on defense and purchasing less and less security for it.

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Need Cash? Cut Nukes

Joe Cirincione | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Gates, Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, Missile Defense, Military Spending, Barack Obama, Defense Spending, Politics News

By cutting Cold War nuclear weapons, Obama could help save the auto industry, or finance anti-terrorism efforts, or rebuild the Army and Marine Corps crippled by the Iraq War.

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It's Not Hillary, It's the Policy Stupid!

Tom Andrews | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Obama should declare that seeking regime change in Iran is no longer the policy of the U.S. and initiate diplomatic contacts with the Iranian government immediately without preconditions.

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Industrial Base

Ray Kimball | Posted 11.17.2008 | Business

Read More: US Auto Industry, Big Three Automakers, Government Bailout, China Industry, Bailout, U.S. Military Technology, National Security, Congressional Bailout, General Wesley Clark, Financial Crisis, Foreign Industry, Auto Industry Bailout, Procurement, Defense Spending, India Industry, Detroit Bailout, Business News

The hard truth of the matter is that truly innovative ideas, which could be "game-changers" on the battlefield, have been AWOL from Detroit's methods of operation for some time now.

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US General Urges Obama To Keep Missile Defense

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Missile Defense, President Obama, Defense, Defense Spending, Missile Defense Agency, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Air Force general who runs the Pentagon's missile defense projects said Wednesday that American interests would be "severely hu...

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McCain's Circular Logic Firing Squad

Max Bergmann | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Breaking Politics News, John McCain, Budget, Mccain Flip-Flop, Defense Spending, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News

McCain is for cutting spending, but McCain is against Obama cutting defense spending, so when Obama is for cutting, McCain is for increasing (except he's still for cutting). Clear?

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Real Change Trickles Up

Eugene Jarecki | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Change, Celebrities Talk Politics, Military Industrial Complex, America, Economic Crisis, Defense Spending, Barack Obama, American Idol, Politics News

Change comes from below, requiring massive investment and sacrifice by everyday people that goes far beyond the effort of casting a ballot.

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Unearthed: The News Without the Chaff

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 10.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Green Collar Jobs, National Debt, Bp, Earmarks, Iraq Oil Contracts, Exxon Mobil, Fishery Collapse, Endangered Species, Defense Spending, ABC News, Alliance for Climate Protection, Global Warming, Afghanistan War, Shell Oil, Media News

This week: 2008 becomes the bloodiest year of the war in Afghanistan; Iraq: war for oil confirmed; ABC refuses climate protection ad; National debt clock runs out of digits; Hidden earmarks.

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Pentagon Seeking $450 Billion Increase Over Next Five Years

Congressional Quarterly | Josh Rogin | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Defense Spending, Defense Spending Increase, Pentagon Spending Increase, Pentagon Budget, Politics News

Pentagon officials have prepared a new estimate for defense spending that is $450 billion more over the next five years than previously announced figu...

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McCain Emphasizes Concern for Veterans...So Just What Has He Done About Walter Reed?

Kim Mance | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Walter Reed Army Medical Center, John McCain, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Walter Reed, Healthcare, Veterans, Armed Services Committee, Defense Spending, Mccain and Armed Services, Cancer, Children's Hospital Care, Children Cancer, Children's Healthcare, Politics News

In all his infinite concern for our troops and their families, just what has John McCain since done to better the condition of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center? Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

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Rising Deficits -- Don't Blame the Economy

Bob Greenstein | Posted 09.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Taxes, Federal Budget Deficit, Economy, Tax Cuts, Government Spending, Defense Spending, Federal Budget, Fiscal Responsibility, Business News

New government estimates show that the federal government will be in a big hole in fiscal 2009 -- a $546 billion deficit. They also help show how we got into this hole -- and the answer may surprise you.

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McCain: I Was Against It (Before I was for It)

Shawn Brimley | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Military, Defense Spending, Election 2008, Mccain, John McCain, Mccain Flip-Flop, Fcs, Politics News

McCain attacked Obama yesterday on military spending, questioning the Democratic candidate's stance on increasing the size of the Army and Marine Corps.

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What Obama Should Have Said

Joe Lauria | Posted 08.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Democratic Convention, Education, Defense Spending, China, Health Care, Barack Obama, Dnc, Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama Acceptance Speech, 2008 Election, Obama DNC Speech, Obama Convention Speech, Obama Speech, Denver, Politics News

"But as long as we keep lavishly outfitting a military of a size we don't need, social progress will remain a dream. Other industrialized countries have made the choice. Why can't we?"

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Misgoverning

Bryan D. Jones and Walter Williams | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Government, Bush Administration, Federal Budget Deficit, Misgovernance, George W. Bush, Defense Spending, Big Government, Managing Government, Management, Federal Budget, Politics News

The Bush presidency will go down as providing by far the poorest quality of governance in the modern period of big government, pushing the federal government toward fiscal insolvency.

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Nickels and Dimes: Why the White House Opposes the GI Bill

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: GI Bill, Contractors, Pentagon, Senator Webb, Retention, Veterans, Dod, Iava, 21st Century GI Bill, Iraq Contractors, Defense Spending, Politics News

The administration's argument is that if a GI Bill benefit is too good, it'll reward veterans too richly for their service and draw them away from re-enlisting.

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Time to Stop Playing Politics on Defense

Bernard I. Finel | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bipartisan Consensus, Heritage Foundation, American Security Project, Defense Spending, Politics, Defense Policy, Politics News

Getting serious about national security means having a nuanced conversation with the American people about our role in the world as well as the price we, as a nation, are willing to pay for it.

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What Exactly is Rev. Wright Saying?

Joe Lauria | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rev. Wright, Obama, Louis Farrakhan, Media, Defense Spending, Frank Church, Cia, Aids, Reverend Wright, Politics News

The American people need to hear what Wright is saying about foreign policy. He may be wrong about some things, but he's spoken about some matters we can no longer ignore.

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George Bush Gets His Way: Letting History Judge

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Department of Defense, Defense Spending, Politics News

Anyone still twisting in knots while trying desperately to contend that Iraq is not another Vietnam can finally save your breath.

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Clinton and Obama Remain Pentagon-Huggers

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, The Nation, Jeremy Scahill, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Barack Obama, Naomi Klein, Pentagon-Huggers, Pentagon, Defense, Department of Defense, Defense Spending, Defense Department, Pentagon Spending, Politics News

We are misdeploying resources and frankly, overspending on the Pentagon by a vast degree. Neither Obama nor Clinton is saying this.

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The 100 Years War

Bill Maher | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Private Contractors, Private Security Contractors, Neocons, McCain Iraq 100 Years, Neoconservatives, Iraq Contractors, Iraq War Five Year Anniversary, Defense Spending, Dick Cheney Iraq, Iraq Five Years of War, War Profiteering, Dick Cheney, McCain Iraq, John McCain Iraq Surge, Politics News

There's a possibility that's starting to scare me: That by a certain neocon definition, Iraq is a success.

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Spend More on Defense but Purchase Less Security

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Progressive Strategy, US Military, Army, Framing, National Security, Missile Defense, Terrorism, American Democracy, The White House Project, Defense Spending, Air Force, Defense Budget, Politics News

We need to get over the collective eight-year-old-boy admiration of fighter pilots and commandos and get to work on brainwashing the rest of the world into not fighting us in the first place.

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